Thursday, June 19, 2008

Other Harvey Artists

1) THE REALLY EARLY HARVEY STYLE ( STEVE MUFFATI?) It looks like a Famous studios animator drew it.It's kinda formless like the cartoons but still somewhat cute.This has more form and appeal but still generic.

2) TRANSITION?3) THE EARLY CUTE STYLEI love this style. Is this Warren Kremer? It's very cute and stylish, more appealing than the earliest stuff.4 Lotta-another artist?This one is a mystery to me, a very cool Hot Stuff cover.5 Transition from late 50s to 60s?

These are still nice but are just starting to lose some appeal, getting a bit straighter or more mature style, less kid-appeal.This one's nice!

The interiors are full of great Howie Post stuff, though.

6 60s mean style startingTheir heads and eyes start to shrink as time goes on...Casper starts to look like a burn-victimHere come the hippies to ruin everything fun.

I'm not sure if he drew the particular cover, but the illustration for the very first Audrey cover is almost identical to a Bill Tytla Gag drawing Jerry Beck posted on Cartoon Brew: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/comics/harvey-comic-art-exhibit

Everything before the Spooky covers are Steve's, then the rest are Warren's. the last couple of Richie pages are Ernie Colon's. Ernie is a fantastic artist, still working. Check out his 9/11 graphic novel on amazon.

Hey, come on man, that bullshit started happening WAAAAY before "the hippies" got here! And don't you think the meanies who started drawing like that were the exact same bunch of idiots that "the hippies" were rebelling against? Not the best method, though: "Tune in, turn on, drop out.....of bad animation schools that buckled under and lost touch!"

i like dem harvey toons they're funny. They look like archie mixed with little lulu. My fav was baby huey because he was a giant retarded duck in a diaper. Thanks for posting these comics up they are very inspiring. I do dislike the harvey cartoons i must say that the cartoon in which casper meets ferdy the fox was HORRIFIC and i find it more scary than bambi.

The color on the earlier covers is warmer and more natural especially that first one. It's beautiful.

The later ones are too blue and mauve, and they use too many contrasting colors. Especially the one with Spooky playing pool. Purple background, yellow title, and a lime green table top... gross. I can't even look at it for very long.

Seeing the Spooky cover from the late 60s (Spooky surprised with the hippies), it makes seeming that I'm listening the song In-a-gadda-da-vida (recorded by the group Iron Butterfly in 1968) on my mind... (my mind is like a juke box)

Characters like Little Audrey looked better in the late 40's and early 50's, because they still had a sense of individuality in their comic appearances. It was after a while that all of the Harveytoon characters started to look essentially the same.

Your principles and preferences are rigorous and studied, john. How'er, even tho' I may agree on any one point, the overall flavor of your pedagogics begins to reek of dogmatics, orthodoxy, and is seemingly forgetful of the subjectivity of all things aesthetic.

The colors they used on the covers rivals the cool color pallettes that Marvel used on their early covers. Ernie Colon did a lot of the Lotta and Dot stuff you show here, as well as most of the Richie Rich stuff. Colon was at Harvey far longer than most think - from about 1954- 1981. I was always surprised he didn't do any animation design, his style always reminds me of Toth in its sleekness.